Xgen - Interactive Grooming - Duplicating Descriptions

[Anonymous]

Hey Guys, 

New here and trying to find some answers about interactive grooming in Maya.

So Is it even possible to duplicate a description?  For instance, you setup a right brow description and you'd like to duplicate it and mirror it.

Any info. is greatly appreciated. 

Thanks!

[Michael_Todd · Accepted solution]

Descriptions can be duplicated but Mirroring is not yet something that can be done automatically. You can export the description as a cache and then import that cache and scale it by -1 in X and freeze the transforms and make a new description from the curves using the the curve to spline modiifer. 

The grooming brushes all have options to reflect across a given axis as well, so you could groom one eyebrow whilst having it mirrored automatically.

[Anonymous]

I see, so you can't really duplicate it withing the grooming stack.  I guess this works as a work around, let me give it a try.

Thanks!

[Michael_Todd]

You can duplicate descriptions yes, but this will create a new copy of the description. Mirroring across the axis is not yet implemented.

Cheers

[Anonymous]

I see, it's in the Descriptions -> Transfer menu

Seems to be a good way to create a stray layer.